Place Value - Rounding to 10, 100 or 1,000 - Worksheet

The worksheet focuses on enhancing students' fluency and precision in rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000, with the aim of rounding any number up to 10,000. To facilitate learning, the worksheet provides differentiated activities and visual teaching slides. Students are expected to build upon their previous knowledge from Year 4, where they rounded to 1,000, and now extend this skill to include rounding within 10,000. The key to rounding effectively, as the worksheet explains, is to examine the digit in the place value column of interest and also the digit to its immediate right.

Through a series of exercises, children practice rounding by circling the correct numbers after observing pictorial representations. They engage in reasoning and problem-solving tasks, such as determining the possible numbers after rounding and identifying errors in rounding examples. These activities are structured to cater to different levels of understanding, from 'Working Towards' to 'Greater Depth'. Additionally, the worksheet includes a section where students must calculate the difference between the lowest and highest possible numbers after rounding, further challenging their critical thinking and mathematical reasoning skills.